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Re: Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

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Post by yiqkio »

yoav wrote: post #7

I use copilot in vscode. It watches what I type and inline suggests the next line or code block based on what I’ve been doing and say a function name or the events I’ve not yet added listeners for. I hit tab to accept. It saves me at least 20% of the time i would spend typing and is insanely good. I have copilotx conversation in vscode that is aware of my codebase and active file. I can quickly get up to speed with a…

Amazing. Thank you! What is the plugin you use to pull the repo and ask questions?

Re: Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

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Post by Nischalj10 »

use it to contribute to open source. one of the biggest challenge for someone while contributing is to get a hang of a complex codebase with not-so-well maintained community supported docs. tons of abstractions for the sake of extensibility makes it even harder for someone new to navigate. have been building and using https://chat.collectivai.com to solve this pain and make open-source contributions easier, more accessible and faster.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

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Post by Aeolun »

I like asking ChatGPT for things that I know I can understand, but do not feel like figuring out (today I asked it how to write a specific SPL template for API gateway transformations). I spent hours looking over the internet for someone that had done it before, and then ChatGPT just spit out exactly what I was looking for (after two extra requests to better indicate my intentions).

Re: Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

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Post by leonheld »

It's a bit surprising seeing all the positive replies to this thread. In my experience (using GPT-3), the time I spend debugging the code generated by the AI is almost the same as if I was to write it correctly in one go.

The comprehension aspect kinda helps me sometimes, like when I need to understand some obscure shell script.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

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Post by yoav »

yiqkio wrote: post #11
yoav wrote: post #7

I use copilot in vscode. It watches what I type and inline suggests the next line or code block based on what I’ve been doing and say a function name or the events I’ve not yet added listeners for. I hit tab to accept. It saves me at least 20% of the time i would spend typing and is insanely good. I have copilotx conversation in vscode that is aware of my codebase and active file. I can quickly get up to speed with a…

Amazing. Thank you! What is the plugin you use to pull the repo and ask questions?

It’s called “AskTheCode”

There might be others worth trying also but this one worked so well for me I haven’t needed to look further.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

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Post by pylua »

keyle wrote: post #8

ChatGPT (plus) helps me every day with boilerplate code or even finding off by 1 bugs and small things like that. Sometimes I also ask it to rewrite something clearer, or add some comments sparingly. Copilot can get really aggressive. Sometimes it's right there, "what I was thinking about! Woo! magic!" And sometimes, it's like "OMG let me hit the return key". So I often turn it off and forget it's off for a week... B…

One thing I am confused about is using ai for boiler plate code . Shouldn’t that be a macro or code generated, or even an aspect ? Having large snippets of ai generated code outside of a macro or code generation tool does not make any sense .
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